May 4, 2020
Self-Service Business Intelligence. What’s Holding You Back?Imagine the scenario. You are a marketing manager and you want to get a list of customers to focus on in your next upsell campaign and your primary BI tool is Excel. You are happily slicing and dicing the data…
April 15, 2020
When Everything You Do Becomes Data, OLAP is More Important than EverIn the modern day world, data is created with every step you take. Buying coffee with your credit card? Data. Navigating with Google Maps? Scrolling Instagram? Data! With the world becoming increasingly data-driven, the more you know, the better you…
April 13, 2020
Free Access to AtScale’s COVID-19 Cloud OLAP ModelIt has been a few weeks since my last note to the AtScale community about our commitment to customers and partners during this unprecedented time of COVID-19. First and foremost, the thoughts and prayers of the AtScale family are with…
April 8, 2020
3 Things to Watch Out For with Google BigQuery for Cloud AnalyticsHave you either chosen Google BigQuery as your cloud data warehouse platform or you are considering doing so? The good news is that Google BigQuery is a great data warehouse platform that I highly recommend. However, there are some major…
April 7, 2020
Watch These 4 Videos to Become an OLAP ExpertInformation is more accessible today than it ever has been before. With online learning technologies and resources, we’re seeing that it’s a reality for anyone to become a self-taught expert in almost any subject. While we’re all spending these next…
April 1, 2020
OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP? COLAP? Why Should BI Care? Which Should You Choose?OLAP is the acronym for OnLine Analytical Processing. Database researcher, E. F. Codd, coined the term "on-line analytical processing" (OLAP) in a whitepaper published by Computerworld in 1993 that set out twelve rules for analytic systems. The term OLAP was…
March 16, 2020
How Distributed, Dynamic and Diverse Data has Transformed Cloud Data AnalyticsBig Data is a Competitive Advantage Big data plays a critical role in modernizing analytics. Analytics are conducted at a much more granular level than ever before because we can capture and save much more data than ever before. As…
March 9, 2020
3 Things About Data Virtualization You Might Not KnowData virtualization is not new. It was born in the naughts when data was still small by today’s standards. Unlike today, most data was stored in relational databases from a few vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. Oh my, how…
March 4, 2020
New Survey Shows Hybrid Cloud, Data Governance and Data Virtualization are Major Trends for the EnterpriseA new independent survey by AtScale, the intelligent data virtualization provider for advanced analytics, in collaboration with Cloudera and ODPi, a Linux Foundation Project, reveals that a majority of enterprises choose multi-cloud strategies; want better integrated security and governance for…
January 15, 2020
Digital Transformation Arrives with Next-Gen Intelligent Data Virtualization91% of businesses today are facing persistent barriers to digital transformation and are looking to make major investments in security and compliance, multi-cloud, self-service analytics and artificial intelligence. Only too aware of operating in a 'transform or die' landscape, performance…
